The 'Story Points' Estimation option is disabled within Advanced Roadmaps > Scheduling
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Summary
The 'Story Points' Estimation option is disabled within Advanced Roadmaps > Scheduling and cannot be selected.
Environment
Any environment with Advanced Roadmaps
Diagnosis
This can be validated by navigating to a Plan choosing the Settings Cog > Configure > Scheduling. The Estimation field for Story Points will be disabled.
Cause
This happens if there is a Kanban Team configured for the Plan that hasn't be deleted. It can be either within the Teams interface or if the Team was deleted but not committed this can be seen within the 'Review Changes' dialog. The Kanban methodology does not use Story Points and that is why the field is disabled if there is a Kanban Team configured within the Plan.
Solution
To resolve this issue the Kanban Team must be removed from the Plan and those changes must be committed to the Plan. This can be done via:
- Navigating to the Teams interface within the Plan and deleting the Kanban Team.
- Then once the team is deleted it will show up in the 'Review Changes' dialog which can be selected via the 'Review Changes' button in the upper right corner of the Plan interface.
- Committing the removal of the Kanban team from the plan in this dialog should provide the Story Point functionality to be selected within Scheduling Estimations.